BEA Team

BEA Team

BEA Newsletter #7

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Hi all, Happy New Year … or belated Valentines Day. The BEA workshop would like to show its love with the latest newsletter :) In this edition we have put together a list of all the upcoming EduNLP (and related) conferences, workshops and shared tasks as well as pointers to resources and papers that came out in the last few months.

I’d like to thank our new BEA Newsletter volunteers: Ekaterina Kochmar, Ildiko Pilan, Somwya V. B. and Helen Yannakoudakis for assisting in the writing of this newsletter. Thanks!

As always, if you know of any corpora, resources, tools, pubs, conferences, job postings, etc. that would be good to have on the newsletter, please let us know and they’ll go in the next one.

Joel & BEA Friends

BEA10 Announcements

The deadline for the 10th edition of the BEA workshop is less than one month away - March 08. We hope you will be submitting something. If you are a reviewer, you will be receiving your account information and instructions soon.

Upcoming EduNLP Conferences and Workshops

There are also two workshops on NLP for noisy or user generated data which learner data is often grouped with:

Resources

  • For those of you who deal with learner corpora, there is a Learner Corpus Association: http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/. The LCA has associated workshops, mailing list and lists of resources.

  • Transforming Assessment is about the use of e-assessment within online learning environments, particularly those using one or more Web 2.0 or virtual world technologies: http://www.transformingassessment.com/

EduNLP Publications

  • A Hierarchical Classification Approach to Automated Essay Scoring, Danielle S. McNamara, Scott A.Crossley, Rod D.Roscoe, Laura K.Allen and Jianmin Dai. Assessing Writing 23:35–59. doi:10.1016/j.asw.2014.09.002, 2015

  • The Eras and Trends of Automatic Short Answer Grading, Steven Burrows, Iryna Gurevych and Benno Stein. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. March 2015, Volume 25, Issue 1, pp 60-117

  • A readability level prediction tool for K-12 books. Joel Denning, Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23417

  • Simple or Not Simple? A Readability Question. Sanja Štajner, Ruslan Mitkov, and Gloria Corpas Pastor. Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon. Text, Speech and Language Technology Volume 48, 2015, pp 379-398.

  • Mathematical Language Processing: Automatic Grading and Feedback for Open Response Mathematical Questions. Andrew S. Lan, Divyanshu Vats, Andrew E. Waters and Richard G. Baraniuk. Learning at Scale, 2015. (Program of L@S 2015: http://learningatscale.acm.org/las2015/program/index.html)

  • Semantic Analysis-Enhanced Natural Language Interaction in Ubiquitous Learning. Dunwei Wen, Yan Gao and Guangbing Yang. Ubiquitous Learning Environments and Technologies. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology 2015, pp 119-137.

  • A Listenability Measuring Method for an Adaptive Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching System. Katsunori Kotani, Shota Ueda, Takehiko Yoshimi and Hiroaki Nanjo. In the Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28). pp 387-394.

  • Developing a corpus-based paraphrase tool to improve EFL learners’ writing skills. M.-H. Chen, S.T. Huang, J.S. Chang and H.C. Liou. Computer Assisted Language Learning 28.1 (2015): 22-40.

  • Annotating article errors in Spanish learner texts: design and evaluation of an annotation scheme. Ibanez, Marıa del Pilar Valverde, and Akira Ohtani (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 234–243

  • Automatic Detection of Comma Splices. Lee, John, Chak Yan Yeung, and Martin Chodorow (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 551–560

  • Frequency-influenced choice of L2 sound realization and perception: evidence from two Chinese dialects. Lan, Yizhou (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 292–298

  • The L2 Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marking. Suying Yang (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 299–308

  • A Tagging Editor for Learner Corpora Annotation and Error Analysis. Tseng, Yuen-Hsien, Liang-Chih Yu, and Hsin-Hsi Chen (2014). Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education.

  • CityU Corpus of Essay Drafts of English Language Learners: A Corpus of Textual Revision in Second Language Writing. Lee, John, et al. (2014) Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education.

  • Measuring the impact of translation on the accuracy and fluency of vocabulary acquisition of English. Oscar Saz, Yibin Lin, Maxine Eskenaz (2015). Computer Speech & Language, Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 49–64.

  • Native and non-native class discrimination using speech rhythm- and auditory-based cues. S.-A. Selouani, Y. Alotaibi, W. Cichocki, S. Gharsellaoui, K. Kadi (2015). Computer Speech & Language, Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 28–48.

  • The Writing Pal Intelligent Tutoring System: Usability Testing and Development. Rod D. Roscoe, Laura K. Allen, Jennifer L. Weston, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara (2014). Computers and Composition, Volume 34, Pages 39–59.